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As Air Traffic Explodes, So Does
The Danger of a Ground Collision

By

William M. Carley Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Aug. 18, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

As the captain of an Asiana Airlines jet was taxiing toward a gate at Anchorage, Alaska, one wintry day in November 1998, the plane began sliding across the snowy tarmac, putting it on a collision course with an Aeroflot jet parked at a nearby gate.

"The aircraft is skidding," the co-pilot of the Asiana plane exclaimed. "We are going to collide."